Growth of Commercial Space Industry
China will continue to promote the healthy and rapid development of its commercial space industry by creating a good environment and expanding the scale of the industry, with standardised supervision and management, a senior offcial of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on 17 April.
Last year’s Central Economic Work Conference called for nurturing strategic emerging industries such as the commercial space industry, and this year’s government work report proposed to actively build the commercial space industry as a new growth engine, both showing that China’s commercial space industry has entered a new stage, said Lyu Bo, deputy director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA,
COTE D’IVOIRE Combating Climate Change
Cote d’Ivoire government is developing a law aimed at regulating all actions on climate change in the country, according to Ivorian Press Agency.
The Ministry of the Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition is drafting the text, “which takes into account the opinion of all stakeholders in the matter at the national level,” said Yao Marcel, director of International Cooperation and Funding Mobilisation at the ministry, on 15 April in Abidjan.
The draft is practically finalised and will be introduced this year for adoption by the Council of Ministers before going to the Parliament.
Once adopted, the law will set up a national inter-ministerial commission and a national climate agency, to “coordinate all climate action at the national level in order to pool effiorts and make the results sustainable,” according to Yao.
The adoption of regulatory and legislative texts will mark an important step in effiorts to achieve national climate objectives. It also demonstrates the country’s concrete commitment to a sustainable future, said the Ivorian authorities.
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At present, nine types of commercial launch vehicles are available for launch services, and a number of enterprises are building constellations consisting of about 100 satellites, he said, adding that the country’s first commercial launch site is under construction.
Unemployment Insurance Fund will be first launched in Gauteng Province before rolling out progressively during April throughout other provinces countrywide, Minister of Labour and Employment Thulas Nxesi told a press briefing on 4 April.
The new programme will focus on enhancing the employability of the unemployed through training, enabling entrepreneurship through enterprise development, and collaborating across government departments and entities to boost jobs, skills training and enterprise creation, he said. An amount of about $1.28 billion will be allocated to implement the plan, according to the minister.
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CHINA Boosting Recycling of Renewable Resources
The All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, a national economic organisation dedicated to the development of rural regions, said on 16 April that it will accelerate the building of a national network for the effcient recycling of renewable resources.
The organisation said in a statement that it seeks to build more recycling sites that suit local conditions, build deep-processing factory bases for the disposal of renewable resources, and explore new businesses through the recycling and disposal of three major categories of products, including new energy vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar products.